If they used a different film for each camera they tested back in the old days, "The Leica with Tri-X was worse grain than the Contax with Kodachrome II", you would have about what you have now.
The norm for testing a 35mm camera was to use the manufactures best 50mm lens, and Kodachome 25. That leveled the playing field. You can not have a meaningful comparison if there are no basic similarities. The more variables you can eliminate the more meaningful the test. However, since lens and recording media are the things being measured you need to standardize one or the other. Since testing a digital camera is more like testing film you need to standardize the lens to get a meaningful result. It is like comparing Fujichrome and Kodachrome by shooting the film in two entirely different systems. -graywolf Tom C wrote: > > I can just hear it back in the pre-internet film days. "They weren't using > the same roll of film in those tests". "What if the emulsion wasn't from the > same batch?". "How do we know the film was scanned properly?" "How do we > know the printed photo on the magazine page is an accurate representation of > the original? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
